Google is the first who come in my mind. A lot of engineer have left Microsoft to Google. Google have make a lot of new things as Google hearth, Google Desktop, Gmail, Google reader, Igoogle, Gcalendar , Google spreadsheet,… But Google video was a badtrip and they have to buy Youtube. Google have nothing really new since few month… Google have done a great job to make a web “Office” but it is just a migration to web not a real new idea.

MAC OS X have add a lot of new idea in desktop but nothing new since it.Apple have take a strong leadership in mp3 reader and Iphone will be a success. So, Apple is now clearly investing in Iphone, Ipod which bring more money to them.

And Aero is not as good as compiz. Microsoft is good to copy something and make it better for everyone (MACOS->Windows, Lotus 1-2-3-> MS Excel, Java->.NET,…). But Microsoft is in bad way. MS Office and MS Windows are the products which bring cash to Microsoft. MS office is challenged by openOffice, Google spreadsheet,… And MS Windows is left for Linux on server side. and now the last part (but bigger one) desktop environment is more and more challenged by Untubu & Suse who have simplified Linux to make it usable for everyone.

Innovation come from open source today. Power of community get bigger!

The console is left for beautiful GUI on linux. Microsoft have seen the trap and contract with Novell to save him for future but revolution come fast and who know what will be the future market-share of desktop?

Imo, It will take time.I am switching to Linux as many other people. I am an engineer and for moment most of people who switch to Linux are IT engineer but they are prescriptor. When someone want to buy a computer and know nothing about it, he ask for advice to prescriptor. The other sign is that administration switch to Linux. A lot of project improve compatibility (Mono, Moonlight, cygwin…) and other products are on both plate-form (OpenOffice, Firefox,…). So all this things make migration easier but a lot of issue is still there because of the lack of support for Linux.

Google Earth isn’t an invention of Google. Google bought Keyhole Inc. and with all their money they bought more maps and introduced some new functions – but the core of Keyhole hasn’t been changed at all. And the same goes for many more “ideas of Google” – they bought company after company. So they’re not better than any big IT mega-enterprise.

Sorry for orthographe, I am french who try to speak english as he can ;(
To be honnest I done this at start to improove my english skill.
I have try to fix all spell error.
For Google Earth OK. So they buy quite all new things… as I said they do not innovate so much…

Agreed, sometimes it seems like my best shot at getting rich is develop a concept of something totally insane and undoable with my resources and market that crap to Google😛

On another notion, a message to “dude”: It’s pointless to criticize duff’s English. It’s still understandable, but in case it is not that to you, go learn some French and see if Duff will laugh at your feeble attempts.

My first idea is that web application is cool but far from what we can doo on rich client. Because we have still a bad engine (HTML) behind it which is not extandable and really small. OK Javascript can do the trick but only with a lot of code for a quite small effect.
So Google will loose a lot when a real solution to replace HTML system arrive (SILVERLIGT , SVG, MOONLIGHT, FLASH, gone on the good way for that)

The WEB is really old and I pretty sure that we will have soon a web revolution. AJAX and all web2.0 thing is just a step but future is forward😉

@A.J.Oja : Keep cool, he said no offence and just to help my blog to be better. we learned from mistake and I prefer to have critik and improve myself😉 Anyway thanks to defend me🙂